Building a Digital Dodge City

This webinar provides a look at Dodge City's community-wide digital inclusion initiative to understand the process of engaging multiple sectors throughout the process.

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"What does digital inclusion mean for people in a community? All people, businesses, and institutions will have access to digital content and technologies that enable them to create and support health, prosperous, and cohesive 21st century communities." (Building Digital Communities: Getting Started)

Building a digitally inclusive community requires buy-in and engagement from all sectors, with libraries playing a lead role alongside government, schools, businesses, and individuals. Using the principles and steps in Building Digital Communities: A Framework for Action, Dodge City, Kansas is engaging stakeholders, aligning interests, setting community-wide goals and developing demonstration projects. Join us for a conversation with the Dodge City leadership team discussing why they have prioritized a community-wide initiative, the challenges of working with multiple sectors (with diverging goals!), what they expect from the project and what they recommend to others considering a similar path.

Presented by

Cathy Reeves, Director, Dodge City Public Library

Jane Longmeyer, Director of Public Relations, City of Dodge City

Greta Clark, Professor and Director of Multicultural Education, Dodge City Community College